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About the Artist
Karma Moffett
is an internationally respected artist known for his unique creative style
expressed through music, oil painting, graphics, sculptings (in wood, stone,
metal, and glass), hand-made musical instruments, and exquisite jewelry. His
creative work is the manifestation of his spiritual odyssey. In each media, you
experience the center of the mandala, the journey into light, and a sense of
peace, harmony, and well-being. Most of the music presented by his label "Padma
Tapes" are Harmonic Journeys, designed to activate and harmonize the Chakra
system, then dissolve the listener into the stillness of the Great Mystery.
Karma's music features his exceptional set of twenty-four Tibetan Singing Bowls,
Tibetan Longhorns, Hand Bells, Tingsha Cymbals, Conch Shells, Drums, and Bone
Horn Trumpets. Karma has sifted through nearly five thousand bowls over a period
of twenty-six years to accumulate twenty-four bowls. These were selected for
their purity and clarity of sound, sublime sustained resonance, and their
harmonic blending or pairing with the other bowls within the set. These bowls
are hand-made, using from five through nine metals, including meteorite. The
varying thickness of the metals, produces a variety of tones and harmonics,
within each bowl. When the bowls are played in runs or struck as pairs, their
harmonics enter the physical and subtle bodies of the listener, to unlock
blockages and move energy. You hear the music of the bowls and internally
experience their vibrations.
In addition to the recordings of his music, Karma has been performing up to
three ceremonies per week at his studio in San Francisco. He has toured
throughout the USA and Germany. Karma has been commissioned to perform at the
Himalayan Fair for the past eight years, the Chinese Mood Festival, the Festival
of Harps, Open Secret Bookstore, East West Bookstore, the Land of the Medicine
Buddha, and has been featured at numerous Whole Life/Harmony Expos, weddings,
birthday parties, and other celebrations. Karma usually opens and closes these
ceremonies with innovative music from his international collection of
instruments, including Native American flute, silver flute, keyboards, guitars,
harp, drums, saxophone, coronet, sitar, Tamboura, and didgeridoo. His
distinctive sounds have also appeared in the films "Dragon" and "Deep Rising"
and in a television special aired twice on Channel 7, KGO TV. |